No your mistaken Britain has no
economic patriotism
And we are suffering for it.
Foreign corporations also currently control 39 per cent of UK patents. This is far more than the percentage of foreign-owned patents in the U.S. (11.0, Japan (3.7) or even the European Union as a whole (13.7).
At this rate, it’s been said, it won’t be long before we’re all working for foreign companies.
So as you can see from the figures it's happening here the sell off .
Other countries adopt what’s come to be known as ‘economic patriotism,’ which involves putting tremendous obstacles in the path of foreign bids. Take France, for example, which argues that it’s in the national interest to prevent key technologies falling into foreign hands. Key technologies that extend all the way from nuclear power to yoghurt-making.[/size]